MØ
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AKA: Karen Marie Ørsted and MO

@MOMOMOYOUTH

About MØ

Karen Marie Ørsted, commonly known as MØ, is a Danish electro-pop artist of great prestige, especially in recent times. With a stage name meaning “maiden” in Danish, pronounced almost like a shortened form of ‘moo’, MØ’s killer vocals and youthful lyrics have continuously caught the attention of audiences and music industry executives alike. First coming into the music industry as half of punk duo MOR, MØ found success initially as a solo artist with single “Pilgrim” hitting the Danish charts in early 2013 and impacting as a Top 20 hit.

Throughout the rest of the year, MØ rose in the pop industry ranks, getting a feature on DJ Avicii’s album, releasing EP Bikini Daze, and signing onto AlunaGeorge’s tour as a support act, it seemed as if the Danish rising star had found the keys to success. The next year, in 2014, the Dane releasing her fiery debut album No Mythologies to Follow to relative critical favor. Combining an electrifying set of pipes with the teenaged lyrics of many fellow pop stars, MØ set herself on a crash course to success. Picking up four awards at the Danish Music Awards along with a feature on Iggy Azalea’s lead single off her reissued album, MØ only further propagated her fame in 2014.

2015, though, sought to be the most memorable. Co-writing “All My Love” for Major Lazer, which featured vocals by none other than Ariana Grande, MØ caught a feature on another Major song – the titanic feel-good hit “Lean On”. The single topped the charts in the multitude and reached top five in many others, including the Billboard charts. Not only was it a gargantuan single chartwise, but it picked up a Spotify certification of being the most streamed song of all time with over half a billion streams and its Indian-themed accompanying video racked up over a billion views. Not bad for a Dane the world had never even heard of a year prior.

Since “Lean On,” MØ’s career has continued to explode. In 2016, she not only released the heartwarming “Final Song” but also the massive Justin Bieber/Major Lazer collab “Cold Water”. The single became her highest charting single in the US and her first UK #1. The Dane is set to release her second album in the coming months, to great excitement.

In 2017, after being featured in many collaborations, she dropped a second EP, When I Was Young in October.

MØ’s versatility and populism have proven in the past four years that she is on track to being unstoppable in the music industry – who knows what she’ll do next?